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John Jamieson Carswell Smart AC FAHA (16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) [2] was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University. He worked in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy.
Q.E.D. Determinism and indeterminism are the two horns of the dilemma in the standard argument against free will. Most recent philosophers follow Smart in his simple proof that a theory of free will is impossible. Smart is an extreme case of those who believe quantum indeterminism might be a direct cause of action.
Another utilitarian, the Australian philosopher J.J.C. Smart, defended hedonistic utilitarianism by asserting that he took a favourable attitude toward making the surplus of happiness over misery as large as possible.
Professor J.J.C. (Jack) Smart, AC, (Companion of the Order of Australia), died on October 6th 2012, aged 92. He was a Scot whose father was an eminent astronomer. He went to Oxford as a student, where he was influenced by Gilbert Ryle and his behaviourist approach in philosophy of mind.
Jan 12, 2000 · How would a physicalist identity theorist deal with this? The answer (Smart 1959) is that the properties of experiences are ‘topic neutral’. Smart adapted the words ‘topic-neutral’ from Ryle, who used them to characterise words such as ‘if, ‘or’, ‘and’, ‘not’, ‘because’.
Dec 20, 2022 · Philosophy and Scientific Realism by J. J. C. Smart Publication date 1963 Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-12-20 11:01:17 Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA40800111 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set ...
Oct 6, 2012 · J.J.C. Smart is the author of Utilitarianism (3.63 avg rating, 301 ratings, 27 reviews, published 1973), Atheism and Theism (4.07 avg rating, 30 ratings,...
